Kennett High Principal Kevin Carpenter said a second campus monitor is needed to help ensure student safety due to an escalation of violence and vandalism. “I can tell you, it's tiresome, it's frustrating for teachers, for administrators and for the vast majority of our students,” he told the Conway School Board. (LLOYD JONES PHOTO)
Under public comments, Kennett Student Body President Elizabeth Bouchard, who is the student representative to the school board, offered some student perspectives on what’s happening at Kennett. (LLOYD JONES PHOTO)
Conway School Board member Ryan Wallace, a sergeant at Conway PD and a former school resource officer at Kennett, believes a second campus monitor is necessary at the high school in order to help curb the escalation of violence and vandalism. (LLOYD JONES PHOTO)
Kennett High Principal Kevin Carpenter said a second campus monitor is needed to help ensure student safety due to an escalation of violence and vandalism. “I can tell you, it's tiresome, it's frustrating for teachers, for administrators and for the vast majority of our students,” he told the Conway School Board. (LLOYD JONES PHOTO)
Under public comments, Kennett Student Body President Elizabeth Bouchard, who is the student representative to the school board, offered some student perspectives on what’s happening at Kennett. (LLOYD JONES PHOTO)
Conway School Board member Ryan Wallace, a sergeant at Conway PD and a former school resource officer at Kennett, believes a second campus monitor is necessary at the high school in order to help curb the escalation of violence and vandalism. (LLOYD JONES PHOTO)
CONWAY — Kennett High’s second semester started this week, and school officials want to make sure students feel safer than last semester on campus. The Conway School Board hired a campus monitor Monday night and authorized Superintendent Kevin Richard to advertise for a second one to help curb violence and vandalism at the school,
Conway Patrolman Brandon James, a Kennett alumnus, is also now on campus as school resource officer. The district went with rotating resource officers for the first four months of school, with patrol officers checking in at Kennett High, Kennett Middle, and Pine Tree School, John H. Fuller and Conway elementary schools, but last month, officials determined they needed a full-time officer on the high school campus
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